Ana Elena Tejera

Director and Screenwriter

Panamanian film director and actress, has studied psychology, performing arts and documentary filmmaking, artist resident in Le Fresnoy.  She has participated in workshops with Pedro Costa, Jose Luis Guerin, Patricio Guzman, Nicholas Philibert and Victor Erice and has specialized in screenwriting, found footage and film restoration at the School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Madrid. She was performing the restoration of the Panama’s film archive at the Filmoteca de Catalunya and premieres her first film, “Panquiaco” (2020), at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the official competition of Bright Future. She is the creator and artistic director of “Memory Festival” an artistic piece of performance and installations in urban spaces recontextualized with images from political archives and part of the theater company Chroma Teatre in Barcelona. Also she work mixing formats audio visuals and performance, her last work is “Aula de Clases- Bla Bla Bla”: Audio visual installation, accompanied by performance created by the 30 years of the Invasion of the United States to Panama, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama